This book provides the first comprehensive overview of Japan's arms control policy, unilateral and multilateral, analyzing its origins and later development. Japan has played an important part in shaping non-nuclear policies and the author pays particular attention to this global aspect of Japanese policy.

First published in 1990, this title is part of the Bloomsbury Academic Collections series.

Reinhard Drifte is Professor of Japanese Studies at Newcastle University and the Director of the Northumbrian Universties Joint East Asia Centre.